Wherever I am, the world comes after me.It offers me its busyness. It does not believethat I do not want it. Now I understandwhy the old poets of China went so far and highinto the mountains, then crept into the pale mist."The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Eustaquia Landa

Ms. Landa has served in the UP library services for over 29 years. As head librarian, she is in charge of the Asian Center library's main activities and operations, including the management of the collection, and the acquisition and cataloguing of books.

Danilo Marcelino

Stationed at the library desk, Mr. Marcelino is a familiar face to many students, faculty, and researchers of the Asian Center. He is in charge of frontline library services and has been part of the UP Library system and the Asian Center community since 1981.

Alessandra Guimba

Ms. Guimba is taking up her MA in Library Science at the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of the Philippines. She obtained her librarian's license in 2008.